An international coalition has called on fashion giants to break supply chains from the Xinjiang region of China and cut ties with those implicated in Uighur forced labor within the next year.
"We are calling on leading brands and retailers to ensure that they are not supporting or benefiting from the pervasive and extensive forced labour of the Uyghur population and other Turkic and Muslim-majority peoples, perpetrated by the Chinese government," the group said in a statement on its website.
China contends that the facilities are vocational education centers where Uighurs learn Mandarin and job skills in order to steer them away from extremism following a spate of ethnic violence.
Y’all better REMEMBER slavery come XMAS time when you all decorate your houses with plastic shit made in yiwu
I don’t quite get how this could help the lives of people there. They will just lose their income and more dependent on the local government right?
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute is leading the China bash and represents the defence industry. Read their words, it is pure conjecture.
Where does SBS stand on the matter? Why no opinion on this issue, but happy to lecture us on everything else?